María Guardiola
María Guardiola | |
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Guardiola in 2023 | |
| President of Extremadura | |
| Assumed office 14 July 2023 | |
| Monarch | Felipe VI |
| Preceded by | Guillermo Fernández Vara |
| Member of the Assembly of Extremadura | |
| Assumed office 20 June 2023 | |
| Constituency | Cáceres |
| Member of the Cáceres City Council | |
| In office 13 June 2015 – 21 July 2022 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | María Guardiola Martín 5 December 1978 Cáceres, Spain |
| Political party | PP (since 2012) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Extremadura |
María Guardiola Martín (born 5 December 1978) is a Spanish People's Party (PP) politician serving as the President of the Autonomous Government of Extremadura since 2023. After two decades as a civil servant within the Government of Extremadura, Guardiola was elected to the city council in her hometown of Cáceres in 2015.
Guardiola resigned from her city council seat in 2022 when she was elected leader of the People's Party of Extremadura, the first woman to lead one of Extremadura's two main parties. As its lead candidate in the 2023 Extremaduran regional election, Guardiola's party won an equal number of seats to the incumbent Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). After at first refusing due to ideological differences, she formed a coalition government with Vox in which she would be president; the coalition collapsed due to national issues in 2024.